Manton Colliery was a coal mine in north

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(

Bassetlaw Bassetlaw may refer to: * Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency), Nottinghamshire constituency in the British House of Commons * Bassetlaw District General Hospital, a National Health Service hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire * Bassetlaw Distri ...

). The site was also known as Manton Wood Colliery.

History

The land was owned by

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (28 September 1864 – 30 May 1928), was an English nobleman, styled Earl of Lincoln until 1879. Biography Henry was educated at Eton College and then Magdalen Colle ...

. Shafts were dug through Sherwood Sandstone and Lower

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. The engine house was built in 1905. The mine was fully operational in around 1907, with three shafts. The first death at the pit occurred on 23 October 1903. Manton, the village, was a new model village built to house the miners. In the 1984 miners' strike, the pit was the scene of some ugly episodes.

Closure

The pit closed on 11 February 1994.Worksop Guardian
/ref> Around 1,500 people worked at the pit when it closed. At the time of closure there were eight pits in Nottinghamshire. Many pits closed from 1993 to 1994, and Manton was the 29th to close in one year. It was the eighth pit in Bassetlaw to close after the 1984 miner's strike.

Structure

It was sited off the A57 at the B6040 roundabout. The Sheffield-Lincoln Line ran east–west to the north of the site. Shunters from the pit are preserved at

Peak Rail Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales. The preserved railway line is over 3½ miles (5.6 km) ...

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Ownership

After nationalisation (

Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act of 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 59) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which nationalised, or brought into state control, the coal industry in the United Kingdom. It established the National Coa ...

) on 1 January 1947, the pit was put in the South Yorkshire Region, not the Nottinghamshire region.

Production

In 1979, over a million tonnes of coal was extracted from the pit; most went to the

CEGB The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was responsible for electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales in England and Wales from 1958 until privatisation of the electricity industry in the 1990s. It was established on 1 Januar ...

Cottam Power Station Cottam power station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station. The site extends over of mainly arable land and is situated at the eastern edge of Nottinghamshire on the west bank of the River Trent at Cottam near Retford. The larger co ...

. Once privatisation of the electricity industry had taken place in 1990, power stations were under less onus to burn coal as a primary form of power (

base load The base load (also baseload) is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. This demand can be met by unvarying power plants, dispatchable generation, or by a collection of smaller intermittent en ...

), known as the

Dash for Gas The Dash for Gas was the 1990s shift by the newly privatized companies in the electricity sector of the United Kingdom towards generation of electricity using natural gas. Gas consumption peaked in 2001 and has been in decline since 2010. The key ...

, which may have largely led to the pit's closure.

References

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External links

The Coalmining Industry

Northern Mines Research

Manton Pit Wood

Woodland Trust
1898 establishments in England 1994 disestablishments in England Coal mines in Nottinghamshire Energy infrastructure completed in 1898 Underground mines in England Worksop